Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Watches / 2020
Tornado Watches in Kentucky, May 2020
1 tornado watches in May 2020. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of tornado watches reaches back to 1997.
Tornado Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 1
- Busiest day
- May 18, 20201 tornado watches
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Eastern Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 2:18 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Bath, Bell, Bourbon, Boyle, Bracken and 48 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Adair County1
- Bath County1
- Bell County1
- Bourbon County1
- Boyle County1
- Bracken County1
- Breathitt County1
- Campbell County1
- Carter County1
- Casey County1
- Clark County1
- Clay County1
- Clinton County1
- Cumberland County1
- Elliott County1
- Estill County1
- Fayette County1
- Fleming County1
- Garrard County1
- Greenup County1
- Harlan County1
- Harrison County1
- Jackson County1
- Jessamine County1
- Knott County1
- Knox County1
- Laurel County1
- Lee County1
- Leslie County1
- Lewis County1
- Lincoln County1
- McCreary County1
- Madison County1
- Magoffin County1
- Mason County1
- Menifee County1
- Mercer County1
- Montgomery County1
- Morgan County1
- Nicholas County1
Nearby
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Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.